Dear all,

The Open Preservation Foundation is pleased to announce that the full veraPDF 1.24 release is out now! veraPDF is an open-source, industry-supported PDF/A validator and part of the OPF reference toolset.

This release is made up of enhancements, technical maintenance and bug fixes:

Added support for the processing of PDFs within zip archives.
The GUI now has a cancel button to allow the user to halt processing.
The new --progress parameter enables command line progress reporting.
A new --config parameter allows users to pass their own configuration files, plus various bug fixes around configuration handling.
Support for Jakarta and Spring Boot 3 for Java 11+.
Support for JSON feature reporting.
Support for PDF 2.0 namespace and standard structure elements with additional PDF parsing bug fixes.
Fixes of unhandled exceptions in malicious PDFs.
Assorted minor bug fixes.

To learn more about the new fixes and features, read the news item.

Read the release notes.

Download veraPDF 1.24

Best wishes,

Georgia

Georgia Moppett (she/her), Community Officer

Open Preservation Foundation (OPF)

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